Dick Kelsey
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Art director
The art director is a person who supervise the creative process of a design.The term 'art director' is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games....
and pioneer theme park designer and illustrator of children's books. His career spanned several of the most beloved Disney films in the 1940s-50s, after which he assisted in the design of Disneyland in 1955. Translating the screen arts to real buildings, Kelsey was hired by the Marco Engineering firm of Cornelius Vanderbilt Wood
Cornelius Vanderbilt Wood
Cornelius Vanderbilt Wood , usually written as "C.V. Wood" and called "Woody", was an American developer of amusement parks and planned communities...
to be a lead art director to design Magic Mountain
Heritage Square
Heritage Square is a Storybook Victorian theme park shopping village at Golden, Colorado. It was originally built as Magic Mountain in 1957-59 by a group spearheaded by prominent Wheat Ridge businessman Walter Francis Cobb and Denver sculptor John Calvin Sutton. They hired Marco Engineering,...
theme park at Golden, Colorado
Golden, Colorado
The City of Golden is a home rule municipality that is the county seat of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. Golden lies along Clear Creek at the edge of the foothills of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Founded during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush on 16 June 1859, the mining camp was...
in 1957. Later Kelsey became mentor to another prominent Disney artisan, Ron Dias, among whose films include Sleeping Beauty. In time Kelsey returned to Disney work, including Bedknobs and Broomsticks and illustrating children's books of Disney films.
Art Director
- Bambi (1942)
- Dumbo (1941)
- Fantasia ("Rite of Spring" segment) (1940)
- Pinocchio (1940) (animator of Pleasure Island)